OWLS

WHY ARE OWLS NOCTURNAL?

• Owls are nocturnal because they are active at night

OWLS ARE HUNTING EXPERTS

• They have really soft feathers so they're nearly silent flyers
• They have 3x as many rods in their eyes so they have excellent eye sight
• They hacve binaural hearing
• The featehrs that go all the way down their legs help them so that their legs don't cut up
• They have four sharp long talons that help them grap onto prey

EYES

• Allows every bit of light available to enter
• Gives owls the best night vision of all animals

WHY DO THEIR EYES REMAIN FIXED IN THER HEADS?

• There are too many rods packed into the eyes, no room for muscles
• To make up for this, the owl can rotate its head

CONES?

• Owl eyes have no cones so they see in black and white.

EARS

• The feather arrangement of the facial disk gather sound waves
• It then directs the noise to the eardrum within the skull

CLAWS?

FEATHERS OR ARMOR?

FEATHERS

OWLETS

• It takes owlets 3 weeks to swallow their prey whole

AN OWL WHAT?

• An owl pellet is a clump of undigestible materials that the owl regurgitates

BARN OWLS EAT WHAT?

OWL EGGS

• Owls don't lay their eggs all at once to relieve some stress off the parents

OWLETS

• The parents use up a lot of their food sources by feeding owlets
• The owlets will deplete more of the food sources if they continue to live there

BARN OWLS LIVE FOR HOW LONG?

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